Physicists from the University of Augsburg together with international collaboration partners identified the magnetic ordering transition in kagome spin ice HoAgGe and discovered that the nonlinear magnetic susceptibility can detect time-reversal-symmetry breaking even in the absence of net magnetization.

Dr Beatriz Pérez González has recently joined the University of Augsburg as a recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The theoretical physicist works at the interface of quantum optics, solid-state theory, and spin-based quantum technologies. Her research could contribute to the development of scalable quantum technologies.

In close collaboration with researchers from the University of Michigan (USA), physicists in Augsburg have succeeded for the first time in proving experimentally and theoretically that heat transport through molecules can change by up to a factor of two through the exchange of a single atom. The study was published in the highly renowned journal Nature Materials.